Quote of the Day: Poetry About Prices

[The market price] synthesizes a number of factors, so that there is difficulty in identifying them and even more in forecasting them: quantities, qualities, possibilities, calculations of interest, memories, fears, hopes. A price is not only the result of statistical figures. It includes all the vibrations of man’s thoughts and soul, since ever they have exercised an influence on the market. (Louis Baudin, La Monnaie et la Formation des Prix, 1836, quoted in Hoff, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society, p. 299.)